Description

SWAFFHAM

TF8208 NORWICH ROAD
809-1/8/81 (West side)
17/01/73 Grady's Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
NORWICH ROAD
Lydney House)

II

Shown on OS map as Lydney House.
House, now hotel. c1760, converted late C20. Red brick; roof
of mixed red and black-glazed pantiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. East front with central
6-panelled and fielded door set behind porch on unfluted Greek
Doric columns. 6/6 unhorned sashes to ground and first floors,
3/3 to attic floor, all under gauged skewback arches. Brick
bracketed eaves. Hipped roof with 2 stacks. North and south
returns also 3-window ranges, centre windows blind, others
with 6/6 unhorned sashes. Attached to south return is a
single-storey C19 ballroom with 3 C20 French windows; hipped
slate roof.
INTERIOR: ballroom with C20 egg-and-dart frieze. Boarded C20
staircase. Cellar of 5 bays divided longitudinally by square
brick piers, each carrying a groin vault of shaped clunch
blocks. Lamp niches to side walls, some provided with smoke
flues. Scratched date: 16 July 1765.

Listing NGR: TF8233508836

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559678

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2